Refusal to acknowledge defeat mirrors the Nazi rise

[struggle4progress]

By Jeffrey Herf
November 23, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EST

... as .. Republican officials and voices in the conservative media amplify the lie that Trump’s rightful victory was “stolen” from him, we should revisit .. German denial of .. defeat at the end of World War I ...

... Imperial Germany bore responsibility for escalating a conflict in the Balkans into a Europe-wide war... the fight on the Western Front became a stalemate ...

The war was .. lost because of .. the refusal .. to accept a compromise peace in 1916 ...

... the stab-in-the-back legend was the parting shot of the authoritarian regime that sought to shift blame for the lost war ...

The lie that German democracy .. was responsible for the disaster .. figured prominently in the .. assault on the Weimar Republic ...

... the spirit of Erich Ludendorff is alive and well in .. the Republican Party ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/23/trumps-refusal-acknowledge-defeat-mirrors-lie-that-fueled-nazi-rise/

[raccoon]

1. Thanks for posting. I just started the Great Courses WWII,

By Thomas Childers, and in the first chapter he talks about this.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

5. Winston Churchill's history of World War II picks up from where his history of WWI ends.

He says os quite explicitly in the introduction to The Gathering Storm.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Domination, infallibility, arrogance

authoritarianism. Some would argue the roots go back to the late 1800s, the Kaiser, the age of Wagner.

This has Nazi stamped all over it. It's why the US must prosecute many of them.

[Lonestarblue]

3. Thanks for posting. I had somehow missed this article.

It’s a really good history lesson and warning. Republicans are allowing Trump’s bid lie of a stolen election to stand. We really need all the media to make stories about the lawsuits he is losing, and why, more prominent. Far too many believe that Biden stole the election. That monstrous lie cannot be allowed to stand.

[uponit7771]

4. K&R, When things look like text book past lets not repeat the bad parts of it

[Ponietz]

6. The Nazis only had a little over 37% of the vote in 1932

The bloated tick has 57 days, still, to engineer another Reichstag fire. Encouraging and spreading the pandemic didn’t work.

Two obvious routes remain — provoking war with Iran, and unleashing the domestic terrorist zombies.